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News

National Ed Tech Plan Released
"The new National Education Technology Plan -- Toward a New Golden
Age in American Education: How the Internet, the Law and Today's
Students are Revolutionizing Expectation -- focuses on signs of progress
in core subjects, benefits from reforms stimulated by NCLB and the
success of innovative new approaches to learning through advances in
educational technology."
URL: http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2005/01/01072005.html
Referred by: TechLEARNING News

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Funding

New Voices Seeks Proposals for Citizen Media Ventures
"New Voices, a program to seed innovative citizen media ventures around
the United States, has issued a call for its first round of grant proposals.
New Voices is funded with a $1 million grant from the John S. and James
L. Knight Foundation and is administered by J-Lab: The Institute for
Interactive Journalism, part of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at
the University of Maryland. New Voices will help fund the start-up of
twenty hyper- local news ventures over the next two years and will
support them with an educational Web site.... Nonprofit and educational
institutions are eligible to apply. Funding is available for start-up news
initiatives only. Ongoing efforts are not eligible to apply unless they are
proposing a new venture. Funding is available for print or electronic news
initiatives, including online, cable, broadcast, narrowcast, satellite, and
mobile efforts. Each project may receive as much as $17,000 in grants."
URL: http://www.j-newvoices.org/index.php/site/story/2005rfp/
Referred by: The Foundation Center

GETTING STARTED: TWELVE STEPS TO WRITING A WINNING
PROPOSAL
"Tracks to Success - A Weekly Primer on Grants Development. The best
way to get started writing a grant proposal is to collect information often
used in writing grant requests, and then set up files for each of these
items. This 12-part series on "Getting Started" will walk you through the
process of deciding what information you need to collect, how and where
you need to store it, and how to best use it in your grant requests.
Beginning this week, the current week's issue of Tracks to Success will
be available for everyone - you no longer need a username and password
to access this valuable information. To read the third article in the
"Getting Started" series, which addresses the organization's structure,
visit the GrantStation website."
URL: http://www.grantstation.com#tracks
Referred by: CTCNet GrantStation Insider

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Research

New issue of The Evaluation Exchange on family involvement
programs
"We have just released the Winter 2004/2005 issue of our "The
Evaluation Exchange" periodical, which you may find of interest.
The latest issue's topic is evaluating programs that promote families'
involvement in children's learning and development. The new issue
compiles the current knowledge base on family support and involvement
programs and provides a continuous perspective on family processes
surrounding children's learning and development, from a child's early years
through adolescence."
URL: http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/eval/issue28
Referred by: Promising Practices in Afterschool

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Activities

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